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College girls play basket-ball - match game between students of Stanford University and the University of California – Vintage Wall Art

College girls play basket-ball - match game between students of Stanford University and the University of California, 1896 — historic print
College girls play basket-ball - match game between students of Stanford University and the University of California, 1896. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The image shows a match game between students of Stanford University and the University of California, a contest between two rival West Coast colleges. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper published it in its May 7, 1896 issue, reproducing a drawing by E.J. Meeker as a halftone, a process that turned artwork into the dotted screen that newspapers and magazines relied on at the time. Basketball was only about five years old in 1896, invented by James Naismith in 1891, and women's college teams were still new, so a published scene of two women's squads on the court shows how quickly the game had spread.

Created / published1896
Medium1 print : halftone.
SubjectsHalftone repro. of drawing by E.J. Meeker. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 82 (1896 May 7), p. 318. Caption card tracings: Sports--; Women--; Univ. & Coll.; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172130

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